Word: bleaknesses
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Hare's plays usually teem with ideas and political passion. He took on the British justice system in Murmuring Judges, postwar disillusion in Plenty, the church in Racing Demon. Skylight is a more modest piece, essentially a two-character drama about a wealthy restaurateur who arrives at the bleak little flat of his former mistress and tries to rekindle their affair. First we learn, rather tediously, the background of their relationship: they met when she went to work at one of his restaurants; she left him three years ago; his wife has since died of cancer. Then, after some getting...
Leigh has been "devising" films, as he puts it, for 25 years, since the aptly titled Bleak Moments. Unable to secure studio financing, he made films for the BBC and Channel 4, where he carved out his own dramatic genre: working-class Brits scraping each other's skin with their verbal aggressions. Since the late '80s he has worked on the big screen. Some of his films (High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, Naked) have earned him critics' awards and a small, passionate U.S. following. He has received museum retrospectives and is the subject of Michael Coveney's comprehensive, reverent biography...
...earlier memoir, Leaving Home, Buchwald described a somewhat bleak childhood spent in foster homes. I'll Always Have Paris (Putnam; 236 pages; $24.95) takes up the story after Buchwald completed a hitch in the Marines and three years at the University of Southern California. In June 1948 Buchwald sailed for France, where he took certain liberties with the G.I. Bill. He told the Veterans Administration he would be studying French, but he never showed up for class. Indeed, he never learned the language, getting by on body English and the Franglais that eventually made his Paris dispatches (including, among other...
...sudden, they might start thinking playoffs and maybe even Super Bowl again. On the other hand, if they lose, with San Francisco, Miami and Green Bay all still on the schedule, the prospect of a post-season looks bleak...
...them while siphoning off tax dollars from the public system inflicted on the rest. "Just 5,000 out of 70,000 kids may be lucky enough to get a voucher," says Cleveland city councilman Roosevelt Coats. "Why should 5,000 benefit at the expense of 65,000?" The bleak answer comes from another city-council member, Fannie Lewis: "You save what...